Quotes by Authors - Page 240

We must know that when we invite people into our lives, we are not just inviting people; but we are inviting experiences into our lives, as well. The time that we will spend with the people that we welcome in, will be the time spent on creating experiences in our lives. We are not really taught this. We are not taught that attached to a person is a world, and in that world our feelings and thoughts will mingle with the feelings and thoughts of the other person. Ultimately, we shape our lives depending upon our choices of the people we take in, and also depending upon the people that we couldn't choose. People are so much more than just lumps of bones, skin, and feelings. When they said one person can change the whole world, what that means is that if you change the life of one person, you are already changing one whole world. And vice versa. So be careful. Be brave, but be careful.
C. JoyBell C.
Hard talk punch thought. Hard talk penetrate the heart. A hard talk opens jaws. Hard talk make us ponder to wonder. It is always hard to hear the hard talk that speaks the truth and reality but, such a hard talk is always a hard talk!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Not until we leave bad situations for worst situations, we shall least value and appreciate bad situations which shield us from the worst situation
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
a crooked truth is far straight than a straight lie
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
You cannot marry your past without divorcing your future.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't trust a mirror that only tells you how wonderful you look.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You know what? Yesterday will never come back. Close your eyes and see something! You shall neither see yesterday nor tomorrow. Open your eyes and you shall see today! Open your eyes to realities then! Today is all you have to make the change! Today is the day you have to prepare for a better tomorrow. Arise and see! Today is the day you have to make the best use of the lessons of yesterday! Open your eyes and see today! Today is all you have to make a change. Awake and see why you have today! Arise and realize why you woke up today! Make today your day!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
the pen is as wise as the mind that speaks through it
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
A thorn is a rose's friend but a gardener’s enemy.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A curator treasures aged bibles, but the wise treasure the wisdom within.
Christian Hunt
Don't cry over spilt milk when you can milk another cow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The lowest wisdom of the wise is greater than the highest wisdom of fools.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is incredible how many hurts can be healed by the two words, 'I'm sorry.
Matshona Dhliwayo
I rather choose to go through what will make me humble than to go for what will increase my pride to a level without limit
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Don't pluck a rose's petals and then ask the rose why it is sad.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Teach your children this from a very early age: "Everybody in this world is different, you're going to meet people who don't look like you, think like you, or even feel like you. This world is filled with so many different colours and shapes, so many different thoughts and feelings. You should never expect anyone else to be the same as you and you should never expect yourself to be the same as anybody else. But everyone can have so much fun learning about each other and celebrating one another" and when you are all able to do this, the world will begin to change for the better.
C. JoyBell C.
If roses were not special weeds would not envy them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
An ugly diamond is still worth more than a beautiful pebble.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Advice for the wise: You"d better bite your tongueRather than cast a spell wrong.
Ana Claudia Antunes
Rain touching our hand becomes a little bit salty! Man touching wisdom becomes a little bit wiser! More touches take more from the touched!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Flowers are prettiest where they are watered the most.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Wisdom is not merchandise, hence it is possible to come across a rich fool.
Gugu Mona
People think that whatever comes out of the mouth of a wise man is the choicest gem, sometime it's utter stupidity and rubbish
Bangambiki Habyarimana
If you don't take inventory of your blessings, ingratitude will try to steal them from you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Wisdom at the mountain-foot sees farther than intelligence at the mountaintop.
Matshona Dhliwayo
To see a man’s true colors, tell him you’re saving yourself for marriage. To see a woman’s true colors, tell her you’re poor.
Matshona Dhliwayo
God knows the WHY , we only receiving the wisdom.
Dariush Youkhaneh
If you are too good to look after God’s trash, you are not good enough to look after God’s treasure.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You cannot control the ocean, but you can guide the rivers that feed it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Follow the river to reach the sea; follow the sea to reach the ocean. And finally follow the ocean to reach the wisdom! As long as you target beyond of the beyond, you will reach the very beyond!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is better to be accepted by the bright few than by the dull masses.
Matshona Dhliwayo
No mountain is too high, but so many people can't climb even a hill. There is always a way to the top, but so many people can't even get the mid and many miss the way. Life is real and the journey of life comes with rules. Mind the real and distinctive rules that lead to success and you shall get to the very peak of the mountain of success surmounting all barriers, challenges and puzzles along the journey to success with a great degree of ease!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Many people define who they are, based upon what the world sees when it looks at them. They build themselves with their foundation set upon the perceptions of others. Do others think they are good, kind, smart, loving? But I define who I am, based upon the person who looks back at me in the mirror. If you were the only person on Earth, with nobody to see you, know your name, or ever be aware of your existence; what kind of person would you be? Live for the person who looks back at you in the mirror and be that person even if you are the last human being on Earth. Too many people live for what the world will think and will see; too few people live for their own soul. Are you smart, successful, got lots of super ideas? But those are not important questions. This is the most important question: do you know how to love? I do not care if nobody on Earth were to know my name; do I know my own soul? Do I know how to love? These are the questions I ask myself.
C. JoyBell C.
All our unique human achievements may seem to be the creation of the unique human mind, but they are simply the by- products of our neurobiological response to the environment.
Abhijit Naskar
Even though the world hails Joan of Arc as some sort of hero, which she undoubtedly was, what pains me the most is that her pathological condition ultimately led to her demise at the age of only nineteen.
Abhijit Naskar
It is the ant, not the lion, which the elephant fears.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Sometimes I truly wish folks would learn to meditate on what they read being more proactive and less reactive for in so doing a humble heart will be found and wisdom from above will be sure to follow them all the days of their lives
John M Sheehan
Added to the shock of the routine violation of their bodies was the trauma of having to relinquish their children to unknown slave-holders. [W.E.B.] Du Bois considered this physical, mental, and spiritual abuse of black women--with its inevitable result being the destruction of the traditional African family--the highest crime committed by slave-holders and the one thing for which he said he could not forgive them.
Aberjhani
At the different stages of recognition, reflection, and redress, practicing compassion provides potentially world-saving opportunities which otherwise likely would not exist.
Aberjhani
Water has no mouth, but swallows many. Light has no hands, but touches many. Wind has no feet, but carries many. Darkness has no teeth, but devours many.
Matshona Dhliwayo
People of the world, today always say, "Look up to the sky, look up to the sky", but while they do that, they trample on butterflies with broken wings and they step on ladybugs with broken legs. "Look up to the sky and be like God", they say; but nay, it is the nature of the mortal to cast his gaze upward, while it is the nature of the gods in the sky to cast their gaze downwards. When you are below, the way to look is up. When you are up, the way to look is down.
C. JoyBell C.
When people are broken on the outside, society is taught to never be rude to them. When people are broken on the inside, society is taught to rub happiness in their faces and show them how perfect life should be. When someone has half of an arm, you are not supposed to go up to them and show them how great of an arm wrestler you are. But when someone has a broken mind or a broken soul, you're taught to go up to them and tell them to look for joy in everything. Society has a very long way to go in terms of what it means to heal this world's broken people.
C. JoyBell C.
The spectrum of possibilities is vast and our souls long to incorporate as many as they can... We are in a constant process of learning how to think, behave, or act understanding the manifestations of Tao, the manifestation of Qi within us.
Nataša Nuit Pantović
On the surface of Life, you walk, talk, act, play but you live only when truly in contact with your Souls, you live only when truly sad, only when truly happy. Sadness and happiness are different faces of the same coin, different ways of understanding the same truth. The sadness though, also brings the self-destruction, it tortures minds, carrying diseases and sometimes darkness.
Nataša Nuit Pantović
As long as the belief is: we need suffering to grow, the world will be suffering and the belief will be limiting.
Nataša Nuit Pantović
The spoon’s color does not change the soup’s taste.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Every day I grow in the wisdom that my soul is vibrationally connected to the Universe.
Debbie A. Anderson
If a bird does not bring out all of the songs on its heart, all its symphonies die inside.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is impossible for light to bow before darkness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Take your time to find, know and understand what you don’t know and in the end, you shall know that it is not all the things you know that show you something you don’t know, but something you don’t know!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Sages see further with their eyes closed than scholars with their eyes open.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A bee, though small, can still sting you; an elephant, though calm, can still trample you; a lion, though full, can still devour you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Because the moon is not jealous of the sun, it benefits from its light.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you touch a wound while it is healing, you will prolong it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is better to be a star for one day than a moon for a lifetime.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The quickest way to find honey is to follow bees.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The dance between darkness and light will always remain— the stars and the moon will always need the darkness to be seen, the darkness will just not be worth having without the moon and the stars.
C. JoyBell C.
Drink from my emotional offerings.
Truth Devour
Many of us fight for and boast our freedom of what is ultimately the ability to prove ourselves to other people. It is unfortunate that only a few of us are so free in our joy, we no longer feel the need to prove ourselves to anyone.
Criss Jami
The Phoenix burns and rebirths from the ashes in the absence of need for witness, acceptance, understanding or belief.
Truth Devour